Talk:ANts P2P
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It seems that the name of this software is "ANts P2P", not "AntsP2P". If nobody objects, I'll move the page, add a redirect, and change some instances of the name within the article, maybe around November 14. --Falsifian 15:51, 2004 Nov 7 (UTC)
Why is it named "ants"? I see other friend-to-friend pages link to Ant colony optimization - Omegatron 19:53, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Diffie-Hellman and man in the middle
from DH article :
In the original description, the Diffie-Hellman exchange by itself does not provide authentication of the parties, and is thus vulnerable to man in the middle attack. The man-in-the-middle may establish two distinct Diffie-Hellman keys, one with Alice and the other with Bob, and then try to masquerade as Alice to Bob and/or vice-versa, perhaps by decrypting and re-encrypting messages passed between them. Some method to authenticate these parties to each other is generally needed.
So, could you explain
The encryption key exchange applies Diffie-Hellman to prevent man in the middle attacks.
